Crystal Xcelsius Engage 2008

Crystal Xcelsius Engage 2008 is the perfect way to get started in the exciting area of dashboarding. It lets you create business dashboards and data presentations from spreadsheets, corporate databases -- and share them "live" via Crystal Reports 2008, Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF and the Web. It provides end-users with access to up-to-minute company data in a simple and actionable interface.

WHY XCELSIUS ENGAGE 2008?

• Get a holistic view of your business performance by consolidating multiple reports into a single dashboard
• Develop and deploy sophisticated dashboards in just a few hours
• Gain real-time insight into your business performance
• Enable your business users to create live and professional-looking dashboards
• Gain the confidence to take action by evaluating different what-if scenarios
• Transform complex company data into simple, actionable visual information
• Engage, inform and persuade your audience with Xcelsius stunning visualization

FEATURES:

With Xcelsius Engage 2008 you will receive all of the capabilities of Xcelsius Present plus additional key features including:

• Advance visualization components
• Enhanced Crystal Reports 2008 integration
• Live data connectivity to any XML-compliant database
• Live data connectivity to SOAP-based Web services
• Export to Adobe Flash and HTML
• Software Development Kit
• And, more!

KEY FEATURES:

DESIGN
Create engaging dashboards like a pro. Experience these features first-hand.

• Point-and-click ease - An intuitive interface, including pre-built components and data connectors enables you to create dashboards connected to live company data in days instead of months.
• Flexible design capabilities - Using various visual analytics, themes, colors and fonts, you can easily customize the look and feel of your dashboards to fit your corporate standards.
• Built-in quick start guides - Start creating interactive dashboards right away by taking advantage of the built-in quick start guides and user samples.
• Software Development Kit - Leverage Adobe Flex to create your own custom visualization components, themes and data connectors for use with Xcelsius.

CONNECT
Deliver up-to-second views of your business performance

• Live data connectivity - Xcelsius Engage dashboards connect to your company's XML-compliant databases and SOAP-based Web services ensuring up-to-minute information, whenever and wherever you view them.
• Connectivity to Adobe LiveCycle Data Services - Xcelsius Engage Server lets you create operational dashboards off of your real-time transactional data sources and broadcast data to multiple dashboards in real-time.
• Connectivity to Microsoft Reporting Services - Xcelsius Engage Server enables you to create live business dashboards from any Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services report with point-and-click ease.
• Flynet Web service generator - Xcelsius Engage Server makes it easier than ever for you and your business users to create dashboards connected to live company data. Flynet Web service generator enables end-users to access and expose company data from any ODBC data source, such as Microsoft Access and SQL Server for consumption in Xcelsius models through an easy point and click interface.
• Visual modeling - Visual sliders on the screen allow end-users to quickly evaluate multiple business scenarios by altering the underlying assumptions, and immediately see the impact on the results.
• Drill down charts and maps - Summarize rows of data in easy-to-understand charts and maps and provide report-level details with a click of a button.
• Dynamic menus and selectors - Take advantage of a large selection of dynamic menus to display large amount of data clearly and concisely.
• Stunning presentation - A comprehensive library of eye-catching visualization components allows you to deliver complex company data in easy-to-understand business dashboards.
• Improved Crystal Reports 2008 integration - Create interactive charts and what-if scenario models for your reports and easily bind them to your report data with a click of button -- no manual coding required.
• Platform independence - Xcelsius visual models can be exported with one click to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Adobe PDF, Adobe Flash, and the Web.
• Microsoft SharePoint Integration kit - Provide your SharePoint end-users with interactive charts, graphs and dashboards that have never been possible using the SharePoint Portal Server.
• IBM WebSphere Integration kit - Integrate Xcelsius dashboards and content into your WebSphere Portal. Xcelsius allows you to easily turn Xcelsius dashboards into WebSphere portlets without coding and enables the creation of complex dashboards which interact across portlets.

Xcelsius Engage 2008: Features

System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista
• 1.0 GHz processor
• 1 GB RAM (recommended)
• 350 MB available hard drive space
• Office XP, Office 2003, or Office 2007

Technical Specifications

• Microsoft Excel 2003/2007, XML compliant databases, SOAP-based Web services

Xcelsius Engage Server also provides connectivity to:

• OLEDB and ODBC compliant data-sources
• Adobe LiveCycle Data Services
• Microsoft Reporting Services

Data and Portal Integrations

• IBM WebSphere Portal, Microsoft SharePoint Portal, Crystal Reports 2008

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.